The Tooth Fairy Story Review: Cartoon Adventure with a Touch of Kid-Appropriate Tween Love Story
In this cartoon journey for preteens, the world of fairies is dedicated to gathering teeth from slumbering youngsters and placing treasure under their pillows. Skateboarding youthful nonconformist fairy Van (voiced by Booboo Stewart) is less than thrilled about spending his future to collecting baby teeth—a feeling that’s entirely reasonable. He’s only a bit more curious about the underlying economics of the situation: the fairies hand over the molars to mysterious goblins, who provide metal as payment. But Van’s curiosity grows when he catches sight of a goblin (played by Larkin Bell), who proves to be not at all the ugly creature he had imagined.
An Unlikely Bond and Common Enemy
The stage is set for an adventure with a gentle touch of young love (even though it remains perfectly appropriate for younger kids). The fairy and goblin communities are separated from each other, and nothing fuels the thrill of the forbidden to unite beings as one. Both groups as seen here are incredibly similar, yet both maintain biased views about the other. Fairies are supposed to be entitled types, prone to taking anything they want, while the goblins are allegedly dim-witted, smelly, and primitive, but are actually bright and advanced in technology.
Of course, such a setup requires a common enemy to unite against, and that need is met in the form of a group of vicious spiders, voiced by Jon Lovitz and Fran Drescher. There’s no beating about the bush with these guys: they want to eat the goblins and fairies, and they serve as quite savage, if not especially competent, villains.
Target Audience and Overall Impression
You won’t find all that many animated films targeting the kind of audience that is beginning to have first crushes, but are not old enough for the content 14-year-olds view these days instead of Twilight. Should your youngster falls into this age group, it probably won’t to be their next all-time fave, but it’s a decent choice.
A Tooth Fairy Tale releases in movie theaters in Scotland starting October 10 and the rest of the UK beginning October 24.
